Lots of good deals at Amazon.com today, I definitely took advantage of it. I really didn't want to go out to local stores and rummage through whatever they might have left, so thank goodness for online shopping. I placed two separate orders, but shipping was free on both, so no big deal. Firstly, the games I bought;

- Condemned 2: Bloodshot (Xbox 360), $14.95
- Lost Planet: Extreme Condition - Colonies Edition (Xbox 360), $19.95
- N+ (DS), $11.95
- Rune Factory 2: A Fantasy Harvest Moon [gift w/ purchase] (DS), $14.95

And of course some video game accessories;

- Nintendo DS Game Card Case 16 - Black (by Hori), $4.95
- Nintendo DS Game Card Case 16 - Pink (by Hori), $4.95
- Nintendo DS Lite Play Stand (by Hori), $4.95

I ordered the black case first, not realizing they had a pink one available (to go with my coral pink DS Lite of course), so I got that one with my second order. I don't know if the 'play stand' is any good, but it was cheap enough to take a chance on. Anyway, I bought some other stuff too;

- 1984 (hardcover) by George Orwell, $16.32
- Dungeons & Dragons - Adventurer's Vault, $19.77
- Dungeons & Dragons - Martial Power, $19.77
- Rashomon - Criterion Collection DVD, $22.99

Yes, I play Dungeons & Dragons, and those books sell for $29.95 regularly. Rashomon is one of my favorite Japanese movies by Japanese director Akira Kurosawa. And I always wanted to read Orwell's 1984, so now I get to. Oh, I bought some stuff on Xbox Live as well;

- Catan, 500 MSP
- Rez HD, 500 MSP

I'm thinking of buying the Crackdown 'Getting' Busy Bonus Pack'; although I've played Crackdown, I don't actually own it, although I do intend to buy it eventually. I'll give it some thought, I have the entire weekend for the sale.

Target had a sale on 1600 Microsoft Point cards for $14.99, $5 cheaper than normal. I bought two today, basically getting 800 points for free, which translates to a free downloable game. I already know what I want to spend the points on, I was thinking;

- Braid - 1200 points
- Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved² - 800 points
- Ikaruga - 800 points
- Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords - 800 points

I know that adds up to 3600 MSP, but I had 440 already, so if I buy all these games, I'll have just 40 MSP left. In other news, I passed 10,000 gamerscore a while ago. The game that did it was Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation, which I don't own, I borrowed it from a friend. Since then, I bought Mass Effect for $31.99 from Circuit City's website when they had a sale. I beat it already, but I'm playing through it again with a new character. I think I'll probably get all the achievements out of the game in three or four playthroughs. In any case, Mass Effect stopped me from playing Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare online every day, which is no small feat.

I had a $10 off any video game $29.99 & up at Best Buy coupon (actually, as many as I could print), and today was the last day I could use it, so I decided to take advantage. I printed out two and checked a local Best Buy to see what I could find. I didn't want anything expensive, so no Bioshock or Mass Effect, I just wanted a game or two for $30 or $40 and get it $10 cheaper than normal. I did a lot of browsing, and I picked up the following;

- Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations, $19.99 (after $10 off)
- Pokémon Ranger, $19.99 (after $10 off)

I was looking for Hotel Dusk: Room 215 but couldn't find it, and I would have liked the second Phoenix Wright game, entitled Justice For All, but they didn't seem to have that either. The poor Game Boy Advance section was severely limited, and although I saw many copies of Pokémon Emerald, I saw none of Ruby or Sapphire which I would have bought instead of Ranger. My girlfriend has Emerald, so I want an alternate version, although they are all quite similar anyway.

While I was there, I picked up some cheapies as well;

- Earth Defense Force 2017, $19.99
- WarTech: Senko no Ronde, $19.99

I know neither is really great, and both are budget titles, but for $20 I should be able to have some fun with them. And _just_ before I was ready to go I saw MechAssault 2: Lone Wolf for $4.99 and I had to get it. If only the original MechAssault was backwards-compatible with the Xbox 360. Oh well.

All in all, I think I did pretty good, but I took Phoenix Wright as the game I will play now, and the rest are Christmas presents. Okay, so there will be no surprise opening them, but at least I got my parents to pick up that bill. I only had $22 in my pocket, so I couldn't afford more than one anyway.